Rio Grande Bosque

By Richard Barish, Bosque Issues Chair The City of Albuquerque has begun its public process to obtain input on Phase III of its trail construction. This phase will extend the groomed trail for almost two miles, from Campbell Road to Montaño. It appears that Mayor Richard Berry’s administration is continuing to attempt to limit broad-based public input on its project. The administration is again violating the procedures for robust public participation that it agreed to in March 2015. Instead, the city’s ...

The City of Albuquerque will be holding a public meeting this Thursday, January 7 at Los Duranes Community Center, 2920 Leopoldo Rd NW, from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m., a trail in the Bosque to be built from I-40 to Campbell Rd. This trail is a continuation of the 6-foot-wide, crusher fine trail built last February from Central to 1-40. The trail was built with no notice to related agencies or the public. If you would like to to attend the ...

By Richard Barish
Bosque Action chair In February, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry plowed a trail through the Bosque with no advance notice to anyone. A public outcry ensued. As a result, in March, the City, the Sierra Club, and the Bosque Action Team negotiated procedures to allow adequate public input into future Bosque projects. The agreement was unconditional and not dependent on enactment into law, but City Councilors Isaac Benton and Ken Sanchez thought it would be a good idea ...

The City has now revealed what its public process will be for the extension of its trail north of I-40 to Campbell Road this winter.  As you probably know by now, the administration reneged on its agreement to follow a process that had been negotiated and agreed to by the administration, the Sierra Club, and the Bosque Action Team. This agreement would have provided for two public meetings and two thirty-day comment periods. First, the City will continue to take comments on ...

For Immediate Release: February 16th, 2015 Contact: Camilla Feibelman, (505) 715-8388 or camilla.feibelman@sierraclub.org Albuquerque, NM ­ Responding to a wide swath cut through the Bosque’s most sensitive riverfront area, Albuquerque City Councilor Ike Benton filed emergency legislation to halt the construction, restart the public process and put the funds Mayor Richard Berry is using in the Bosque into the Open Space Department. The legislation, if the City Council allows it, will be heard on Wednesday. Members of the Bosque Action Team will ...

Contact: Camilla Feibelman, camilla.feibelman@sierraclub.org or (505) ­715-­8388 Albuquerque, NM ­ Despite repeated attempts to meet with Open Space and City officials, Sierra Club leaders have received no formal response from the City. According to leaders, telephone calls and email requests remain unanswered. The City has continued bulldozing a mile and a half swath in the Bosque between Central and I­40, through some of the protected area’s most sensitive habitat, abruptly interrupting a public participation process that promised a consensus on a trial ...

For Immediate Release: February 12, 2015
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Contact: Camilla Feibelman, (505) 715-8388 Albuquerque, NM ­ On Monday the Bosque Action Team received maps of three different options for trails in the Bosque, part of a public process on how to restore and formalize trails in the Bosque. On Tuesday the City of Albuquerque had bladed a 6-­foot­-wide trail through the Bosque. Members of the Bosque Action Team, who had been working with the City in a productive public ...